Natural Gas in Storage in Nebraska

The traditional inventory–building season is April to October for natural gas. The volume of working gas in underground storage by November 1 has to meet winter's demands under any circumstance. The volume in storage in July was approximately 80 percent of storage capacity.

In July 2026, Nebraska had the capacity to store 12,653 million cubic feet (mmcf) of working natural gas or working gas, and there was 10,108 mmcf of working gas according to the Energy Information Administration estimates. This volume of working gas was an increase of 235 mmcf (or 2.4 percent) from the previous month but a decrease of 7.8 percent from July 2025 (last year). Stocks were above the five–year average, below last year's stocks, and in the upper half of the five–year range. (Figure 1)